Hinton: brains have far more connections than experiences, LLMs are the exact opposite
burny_tech · x · 2026-11-08
Geoffrey Hinton explains a structural inversion between brains and LLMs: humans have vastly more neural connections than experiences, while neural nets flip that ratio — relatively few parameters trained on enormous data. He argues brains and LLMs are thus solving opposite problems, a point at the heart of the data-scale vs. architectural-prior debate on the path to AGI.
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